Multiple social media posts have shared a claim that period products in Germany are subject to a tax of 19 percent while books are taxed at seven percent, leading to one company packaging tampons in a book in order to circumvent the higher tax rate. The claim, however, is missing context. "The Tampon Book" was launched in 2019 to protest how period products were taxed in

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